Its kinda scary seeing how close we are to an Orwellian society. I recommend going out and reading 1984 by George Orwell and then go over here and look at where we are at. I find it ironic that while the US prides itself on its freedom it is continues to become more and more oppressive.
As it turns out I, along with both my brothers and a cousin, am soon to recieve another piece of inheritance from our only surviving grand parent. Like a lot of inheritance this resonable chunk of money has been set aside for a specific future event - my engagement. The money is to be used to put towards an engagement ring. This is somewhat ironic. I have friends who have spent a lot of time scrimping and saving for such a thing, or have foregone such traditions due to the rather extravegant expense (well for a student at least) when they got engaged to their fiance....
While I’m not really blue about it, my hair, for the uninformed (which constitutes entirely of random visitors) is getting increasingly sparse. The density is decreasing and the hair is fading into nothingness. In other words I suffer from a hereditary condition known as male pattern baldness. This I don’t have a problem with. I can live with my head being hairless (mind you I’m not sure I like the increased risk of skin cancer, but at least sun cream is easier to apply when their isn’t any hair getting in the way)....
We have a rabbit eating grass in our backyard. Its white with evil red eyes. ….. I wonder if it tastes good? Mmm, rabbit meat… Maybe I’ll keep it - it might keep the grass short.
Well church held an op-shop to get some money to buy a digital projector for a less well-to-do church out in Minto. Besides finding 370,000 Indonesian Rupiah and a AU$1 note (printed prior to 1970) in some clothing I managed to score an adequate, yet cheap, solution to my CD storage problem (previously discussed here). I managed to score a CD drawer thingo and for $6 it does alright. But I have some criticisms....
Is this on anyones Christmas wishlist? I think I’d rather breathe the smoke.
I converted another computer to firefox today after getting rid of the spyware that had invaded it. Chalk another up for the open source community. You get a great warm feeling inside after deleting the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop. Its great way to subtly tell Microsoft to pick up their game. Frankly I’m a bit sick of spyware and malware and zombies. In my opinion the biggest problems with internet security at this point in time is IE, Outlook and the unprotected network mode Windows defaults to on installation....
Well this is an interesting experience. At the moment, rather than hand crafting a blog entry in a web page, I’m using a neat application called ecto to handle the hard work. It has a button for including the current song in iTunes (which for the moment spits out: “The Careless Kind from the album “Six Feet Above Yesterday” by Infusion”) It also lets me edit html at the click of a button and view the ‘finished product’....
… you’ve had a coffee and a coke within the first hour of being at work and you spend your work typing on a computer and you wake up with a sore hand from the masonry drilling you did at 1am the night before. I think I might be getting a bit old for such reckless activities.
If anyone has watched someone as they work on a computer, someone playing a game or even someone watching tv then you should easily be able to imagine their face as they ‘interact’ with the machine. For some the face is completely blank - no visible sign of emotion what so ever, for others they will cringe and react to what is going on on the screen, but all will have the fixed stare - often wide eyed, and the rigid bodies making minute hand movements as they manipulate the mouse or as they push the buttons on the keyboard....